A significant and oft-quoted axiom in the Book of Mormon is “wickedness never was happiness.” In context, the passage explains why sinners inherit the Kingdom of the Devil after they die and are resurrected, but the saying is more popularly applied to the present. “The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. Wickedness…
September 27. The day passed quietly and without notice. It was one month after my birthday, but that’s nothing to celebrate. It was the 270th day of the year, but who cares? It was a Sunday, so I slept in that morning, but that’s not significant. Oh yeah. It was also the two year anniversary…
Tomorrow is the National Day of Silence, to commemorate the silence that gay youth experience before they come out of the closet. I am very excited to participate by taking up a vow of silence tomorrow. I am well acquainted with the silence the day is supposed to raise awareness of, but I have not…
After the article in the Daily Universe outed me as a “gay student” at BYU, I received a friend request on facebook from someone I didn’t recognize and with whom I shared no mutual friends. One look at his profile and I knew he was “family.” I wrote back asking why he had added me…
When I was quoted on page 9 of the Daily Universe, everyone read it. Everyone. Oddly enough no one read an article that focused a lot more on me than I thought it would published on the front page of the Sunday Tribune. Go figure. I guess the people that know me read Deseret News.…
I love being gay. I love the fact that I love being gay. I love the fact that others love the fact that I love being gay. Tonight I felt so happy being who I am. This is huge. Gone are the days when homosexuality was a disgusting affliction. Gone are the days when I…
“I am vindicated! I am selfish. I am wrong. I am right; I swear I’m right, swear I knew it all along. And I am flawed, but I am cleaning up so well. I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself” (Dashboard Confessional). Today was my last therapy session. I…
For the longest time I was outside looking in the window on the “ideal” family I was barred from. It was a miserable existence I lead, always obsessed with the one thing I couldn’t have. I didn’t notice that there were all these wonderful things here in the outside. Like, taking the Peter Pan analogy…
I should be doing homework, but Abelard Enigma posted the most beautiful, realistic, appropriate, well-rounded, fair, qualified, informed, and educated descriptions of the three options that Latter-day Saints with SSA face. Please read them. Option 1 Mixed Orientation Marriage Option 2 Celibacy Option 3 A Homosexual Relationship Reading these options and the well developed pros…
In his post, “What Happened,” Therapevo Ydata said: I do not know if anyone else has noticed the change in the MoHo world. This place used to be special to help those who are dealing with SSA and trying to find others who understand them. . . Quite frankly, it now seems to be the…
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